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                     Record Rainfall Floods Midwest 
                      Rivers burst their banks, inundating homes and farmland in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa.   
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                     Groundwater Declines in the U.S. Southwest 
                      Record snowfall has not been enough to offset groundwater losses amid long-term drying and a heightened demand for the resource.   
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                     The Timeless Moors of Yorkshire 
                      Rolling hills of peaty soil store thousands of years of plant matter in northeastern England.   
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                     Capes and Bays of the Makran Coast 
                      Uplift, erosion, and sea level rise all shape this part of Iran's shoreline.   
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                     Fires Char South-Central New Mexico 
                      Wildland fires burned tens of thousands of acres near mountain communities including the village of Rudioso.   
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                     A Blast of Heat in the East 
                      A heat dome broke temperature records in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.   
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                     Peek-a-Bloom in the North Atlantic 
                      A short-lived gap in the clouds let satellites observe a striking phytoplankton bloom east of Greenland.   
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